Zurich Herald, 1916-11-24, Page 6BRITISHREACH Eli 0SKR ...S OF GRAND.ECOURT
Successes Give Thein Command of Ruined Villages and Strong
German Points in the Valley.
London, Nov. 19. -Following vio
lent artillery preparations, the British
troops r;znashed forward north and
south sof the Ancre Saturday, Cana-
dian units participated in the attack.
On a front of seven miles advances
varying from half a mile to a mile ;
were made, and the outskirts of
Grair:feourt, on the south bank of the'
Anere, reached. The total prisoners
taken zt•ere 722.
The British also gained advantages
on the north of the stream, where the
enemy lane were bent back north-
east of Beaemont-Hamel and north!
of Bcau ourt.
.she fighting took place in a snow-
stortll,- the first downfall of the sea-
son it that region. The gains were all
cot •a'.idat el, but further progress on
Suridee �, ., prevented by the heavy
sn,�v fai , whic•h extended all along
the British battle -front,
Sanael rt' str cesses, obtained un- " f
der tilts hai�lirap of stormy weather'
- conditions, have wheeled the British
;lines north and south of the Aner
into alignment. Thus, with a front
I running almost straight from the re
, gion south of Serre to the sector east
of St. Pierre Divien, south of the
river, the British are in position to
5trilce with .creat power against
Grandcourt and Miraumont.
On their part of the Somme front
the French repulsed two German at-
tacks, one on each side of the river.
The Germans got close enough to the
French positions both times to be
within range of hand -grenades. The
French broke up both attacks partly
by the use of these missiles.
The first German attack was macre
during the night by a strong force of
German troops near Biaches, just
across the river from Peronne. In the
afternoon the Germans south of the
Somme attacked French trenches in I
ront of Berny, but again the hand
gx•enades stn ed th
MSI TRADE
TAKES! J.. LEAP
Gain of Over Six Hundred Mil-
lions in Seven -Month
Period.
despatch from Ottawa says: A
gain of more than $600,000,000 is
e 1 shown in the trade statement issued
1 by the Minister •of Customs, Hon, .1.
-ID
A
FRANCUSERB FORCES
ARC' INTO �O �A I
Serbians Have Proclaimed The City As Their. Provincial
Capital.
London, Nov. 19.-Monastir has
fallen; Outflanked by the Serbs, who
drove forward dauntlessly along the
. Reid, covering the seven-month t ridges to the east, the Bulgars and
period ending Nov. 1. The grand. total Germans evacuated the city, the
for the seven months, including the stronghold of Serbian Macedonia. The
movement of gold as well as of mer- allies entered at 8 o'clock this morn-
chandise, amounts to $1,313,189,891, ing•
compared with $709,537,488 for the Thus the first fruits of their long
corresponding period of the last fiscal and bitter campaign have fallen to "After the enemy had succeeded in
!1 year. The October trade rose from king Peter's troops. They have re- making progress on Height 1,212,
$150,004,125 to $164,330,479, a- gain of gained one of their most important northeast of Cegel, the German and
1$14,326,354. - cities, and as a symbol of the first Bulgarian troops took up a position
Imports of merchandise eat t
p 4� step in reclaiming i g their land north of Monastir. Monastir thus
i from $89,515,144 to $71,199,51;3 in have proclaimed ib their capital. was abandoned."
1October, and from $253,107,663 to The Bulgar-Teuton forces, swept An Athens despatch ,
a402,161,795 inback bythe P says Lieut.
the seven .months, 1 e brilliant assault, are re- 'Murat, at the head' of General Leblor's
!while exports of domestic merehan- I treating in disorder to Prilep. The' escort, entered Monastir this morning,
; dise rose from $80,038,582 to $85, I Serbians took a large number of pri.' followed by the Russian and French
31'2,175 in October, and from. $326,_ I soners and huge stores. They are infantry. To prevent disaster the
1420,730 to $622,033,989 in the seven I pushing after the enemy and already . G erman-Bulgar forces evacuated all
months. The most important gain- in I have consolidated their positions on I the positions during the night of the
exports for the month of October - is 'the Monastir• Plain.
found
pP em.
The text of bhe French statement
follows:
"Troops of the Army of the East en-
tered Monastir at 8 o'clock this morn-
ing, the date of the anniversary of the
taking of the town by the Serbians in
1912."
The German admission follows:
un er manufactures, the figures I
Bing $12,880,731 in October, 1915,1 e• Fre.
d _
T f� and $28,637,314 1n October this year. ; Q 7
cous
��e I Iron bI Duff
!Exports of other lines fairly
h d i
4t,
sal
maintained with the exception of WITH
r-�� ��•�
products, which dropped I H SUB MENACE
Mr. a long suffered had nes were•
, ' . I apparently caused instant death. The 11
5 e mal
polys of th death ' agricultu
e ea of his son Pte
G
it a , Clark Duff, who went overs
11 the 76th Battalion, came a fortnight' 27,301,,934 in the same month this
ago on the day following his return
year. Col. Churchill Shows That Loss
SI mai' 8if
• I from 89,833,353 in October, 1915, to
ease •evith
Village Which the Greeks Sur -1
rendered to Bulgars I
I
to his duties as Minister of Agricul-
ture after a lengthy vacation made
ecessary through ill -health.
Captured.
I ANGRY FOE GENERAL
A despatch from London says:- I FINES TOURNAI TOWN.
The Entente armies operating in f
Macedonia have made d ' -
gress. The capture by the British of;
the Town of BarakIi, on the eastern I or Males is Not Furnished.
enol of the Macedonian front, is an--; A. despatch from London says
flounced officially. Barakli is 1?a ; Thirty thousand Belgians alread
miles southeast of Bara.kli-Juma, have been deported to Germany, ac
which the British captured recently cording to information received her
in renewing the offensive along the a through official channels. Report
Struma •Front Th'
a ditional pre- 200,000 Marks Imposed Because a Lis
t
y
e
s
is part of the Mace- from the same sources say that th
(Ionian campaign is being fought in German plan was to take some 800,
north-eastern Greece, over the ground ; 000, judged from the order issued in
which the Bulgarians occupied several: a number of cities for all males over
months ago, taking over Greek forts! seventeen to report for inspection
and establishing themselves well to +, The Municipal Council of Tournai ha
the east of the allies' right flank. !formally declined to accede to th
After several abortive attempts the I German demand the re ort
WHY 1 A
of Ships Has Been Made
Good.
18th and 19th. The retreat is general.
LOSSES 150,000
SINGLE DAY
At Least 1,500,00 Casualties in
The Sontine Battle
Thus Far.
1" I B A� Great Britain's most important en- F1A despatch from New York says:-
emy, says Col, (Winston)Churchill,Frederick Palmer, the war correspond-
" should notent designated by the British War Of
get the id flee to represent tl entire
i Britain was afraid of
The fleet and resources of the coun- ' Fridayi$6.
try were quite able to cope with the ; on the �?ohand-America Line steam-
danger. The speakeri shI Nieuw Amsterdam, for a rest be- . Prov;§ioas-wholesale.
urged the arm- fore going back to the front. 126Smoked
mdo e he vs ts221to S3c.;; medium,
diu d; 24 35 to
err 'Mg of all merchantmen. Four-fifths 25 rolls, 19 to 200; breakfast bacon,
n i of the armed ships attacked he said,It is Mr. Palmers opinion that the
escaped, while four-fifths of those
+ g 4G to 27e; backs, plain, 26 to 27c; bone -
n '
allied offensive against the Germans " c.
A despatch from London says:
Means a Definite Encircling of
the Central Powers:
A despatch from Paris says:-Je
Cruppi, formerly Minister of Foreig
Affairs, speaking at a meeting o
Thursday presided over by Prof. Pa
Painleve, Minister of Public Instrs
Markets of the World
Bireaastuffs.
Toronto, Nov, 31,--14anitoba Wheat -
No, 1 Northern, $2.088; No. 2. do.,
2.033; Ne, 3, do,, $1,98; No, 4 wheat,
1.81; track, .Bay ports. Old Drop trad-
n Se above new crop,
¥anitoba oats -No, 2 C.W., 72/e; No.
3, do., 7180; extra No. 1 foed, 713; No. 2
feed, 713o, track, Slay ports.
$1
American nImmediate shipment, tretrcktT110'w•, to.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 66 to 680,
nominal; No, 3 do., 65 to 67o, nominal,
accoraing to freights outside.
car lot, $1 wheat-Newrio $ ; No 2 Winter,
in31.86pto
$l Peas-Ntsao 3,g$2.40to fto1 $2,45,ght according
to, freights outside.
Barley -Malting, $1.18 to $1.20, nom-
inal, according to freights outside,
Iiuol.wheat - Nominal, according to
freights outsldG.
dye -1Vo. 2, $I,10 to $1.42, according
to freight outside.
bagsM, *10,40 12nd, do1T$0 patents,
0;os long jute
ors', do., $9.70, Toronto.
Ontario flour - Winter, according to
sample, $8.50, in bags, track 'Toronto,
p10
Mi lfeedipCar lots - Delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included, bran, per
ton, $81; shorts, do„ $34 to $85; rnlcl-
dlings, do., $37 to $39; good feed flour,
peIIayg,N$o2,7x per5ton, $13 to $14; No. 2,
do., $11 t0 $12, track Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $9 to $9.50.
tract: Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Buttes• --Fresh dairy, choice,. S9 to 40c:.
creamery prints, 44 to 46e; solids, 433 to
440,
or-
a. egelects, 40 tstorage,1; new laid in car-
tons, 52 to 55o; out of cartons, 50 to Ole.
Cheese -Large, 23 to 233e; twins, 233
to 233e; triplets, 24 to 243e.
Live poultry - Chickens. 15 to 17o;
fowl, 13 to 14c; ducks, 13 to 15c; turkeys,
25 to 2Se; geese, spring 14 to l6r.
.Dressed poultry -Chickens, 21 to 22e;
fowl, 17 to 10c ducks, 1S to 20c.; squabs,
Mer dozen, .$4 to $4.50; turkeys, 30 to
35c; spring. 17 to 190.
tins, cr123 tol13c; 10.11) , 113 to 123c;; r 60-
1b., 11,8 to 12c, Comb' honey -orfs fine
and heavy weight, per doz., 33; select,
$2.50 to $2.75; No. 2, 32.25 to 3'4'.40.
Potatoes -Ontario, per bag, $2.10 to
$$2.25; British Columbia Rose, per bag,
$2,10' to 32.25; New Brunswick Dela-
wares, per bag, $2.35; I'rinc•e ldward
Island Whites, per bag, $2.10 to $2.25,
track Toronto.
per ton, $35 to $40.
ea, that Great -
Cabbages -Man.,
le ipress of cans - Inrrrorteci, hand-picked, per
the submarines. the United States returned on Fxsd t)ushel, $S.50 to $6; Canadian primes, 35.
had os
ul 1 unarmed had been sunk. Col. Church- °n the French front will end only !bran cu d dry cured meats, 1 cant less
c-
less, 2S to 29
Pickl d or
e tion, outlined the importance of the in
tervention of Roumania on the side
the allies in the war. As a result of
Rumania's participation the olio
• armies are now at Orsova, from whi
s point he said they would be able
e advance toward Budapest. It is onl
Dritisl) forced a pasage of the Str 1 t•esinIt
a t' that hith P
and have now occupied a numb
towns, pushing eastward about
miles beyond the river at some p
The Franco -Serbian offensive
continues with full success.
DEATH O1'' HON. ,TAMES S. D
oma 1 g erto it had 13ac
er of quiesced to all the German- orders
Dints. )�
four General Roper thereupon imposed a
fine of 200 000 marks i
tis added, for
also I the refusal of the Couiicil to furnish
a list of male inhabitants, with a fur-
ther fine of 20,000 marks daily as long
I;FF., as the Council refused to give the list.
i ill pointed out that at the beginning , wnen the war itself ends, that it will Curedrmeats-Long clear brr.o ,n; 18 to
of i of the war Great Britain had over ! be continued for two, perhaps three' 1'3T a ptj s -T ire hard etierdes, 10318 to 200:'
eighteen million tons in ships exceed-
.,
xceed- years. He was told by the staff of tubs, 20 to 203c; pails, 201 to 203e; com-
ing 1,000 tons. She had almost the I the allies that they had no expectation pound, 168 to 16c.
of breaking the German line this Cooking tills - white, tierces, 153c;
d ! same to -day, although she had lost 2,-
u!225,000 year. loo -lb, tins, 10 c; yellow, 1-8c below
ctons by all risks, and, he be -rt' "There is only one historical com-1 •white.
to 1 lieved, had added four-fifths of that , parison for the Somme battle -Ver- r
,31?rreal hla-Cornrketa.
Montreal, Not21, --:irnor}can
No. 2 yellow,$1.12 to 31.13. Oats-Can-
adta
n Western, set r
e n N
o. 2, 76c; N0. 3. 75c;
extra- No, 1 feed, 75c. Barley-Mani-
tobain losses in killed and wounded, and 111'unit ba' Sp zing na heat pate patents, firsts,
30. Flour -
BY RUSSIAN AI2TILLERYI in voitrme of artillery tire, $zo.so; seconds e1o; strong bakers.
A despatch from Petrograd, says:- , trai 4 rollersinter patents; 80; do, ags
"In the Somme sector 6,000 British , straight rollers, $9.5o to $s.so; do., bags,,
' $4.55 to $4.70. Rolled pals-Bb1s., 27.45;
60 miles from Kalafat to. Nish, thr54r
- which passes the railway coh1i e
• the Central Powers .with 'the
East.
dout also that it is
onl;
180 miles from the advanced positions
on the Salonica front to the Danube
End tame When He Was Visiting I
Friends in Alliston.
A c' .watch from Alliston says !Three Brant Factories Running Night
HASH FOR THE ALLIES.
and Day Drying Vegetables.
Ho. fames S. Duff, Minister of Agri-
culture for Ontario, dropped dead on
Friday in the home of an old friend,
Mise Sarah Irwin, of this town. He
had r etu; ned in the morning from To-
ronto in hi:; home in Cookstown, and
in the afternoon drove over in his
carriage by himself to take Miss Ir-
win bark with hint. As lie was about
to :pit in fro=rt of a fire in Miss Irwin's
honer to waren himself he dropped to
his icr'ees and lapsed into unconscious-
ness. A doctor was summoned, but
the heart condition from which the
A despatch from Brantford says:
War orders of an unusual nature are
i keeping three plants in Brant county
'running night and day. They are
evaporating plants furnishing dried
vegetables for use in soups and hashes
for the allied armies in the firing line.
IThe woman who is a slave to fa-
t shion should never marry a man who
is opposed to the financial encourage-
ment of slavery.
CANADIAN CAVALRY TWICE
BROKE THROUGH GERMAN LINES
Some faits Have &en in Close Contact With Infantry on Somme
All Summer,
A de patch from London says: Al-
though
lthough the Canadian cavalry has not
beet, r nch engaged 111 active warfare,
dome have seen more of the Somme
fir hti ,r•• than some of the Canadian
div_;'ion , .A Western cavalry officer
who mane across to London from
I''rarnc,:• on Wednesday, told a corre-
lspondent that throughout the Sum-
mer his unit had been able to break
!through the Germans' lines with good
I results. Although largely engaged
lin passive duty, the cavalry have done
I much patrol work, and have been fre-
quently within range of the enemy's
heavy artillery.
"BS DROPPEDONMACH
lsw4
BY INTIM ID FRENCH AIRMAN
A E!a'•i ...trds Crossed Alps and Landed North of Venice, After
Covering 433 Miles.
A rlet-paatc'h from Paris nays: Fri-
day ' :i•t e War Office statement
Arron :.. ; ',rnarkal,le feat by a
1 I ::r:; The etatem4.nt says;
t: r, ('n;)i. Den,zziebamp,
st:r> 1- i r :. ':ly inoveieg at eight
e'ef ici> ie the do .'tabun of - i'4 : ich,
where he ari•iv;:d at noon. Ile flrop-
ped several bombs on the station in
retaliation for the bombing of the
, open city of Amiens a few days ago,
Capt. DeBeauehamp then landed at
Santa Dona di Piave, in Italy, 20 kilo-
tnetre+ north of Venice, after having
er osscd the Alps. The captain thus
Bove cd a distance. of 700 kilometres
(approximately 435 miles)
h amount by new construction.
4,EPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN
and that the Russo -Rumanian armie,
I1 have a natural path through Do
brudja towards Sofia and Constants
I nople, Dorna Watra, in Moldavia,
1 where the Entente allies have been
fighting successfully, overlooks the
I plains of Hungary.
These considerations, he urged, are
sufficient to show the importance of
the Rumanian front in• the plans of
the Entente. '
dun," said Mr. Palmer. "It has long
since passed Verdun in the intensity
of . the fighting, in numbers engaged,
Russian troops near Sarny, south-east 1 French and German guns have been do. bags, 90 lbs., .33.60. Bran, $30. Shorts
of Pinsk, have brought down a large! in action on the same day. Within one $33. Middlings, $35 to 337. Mnton,
Zeppelin airship. The crew of 16 period of 24 hours there have been at$40 to 345. 1 -lay -No. 2, per• ton, ca
- was e - nest westerns
BRITAIN TO STOP
LI O MAKING?
Drastic Move Proposed to Con-
serve the Supply of Corn
and Sugar.
A despatch from London says: A
motion that the manufacture of intoxi-
cating liquors in Great Britain should
be prohibited will be made in the
House of Commons, according to
notice given by a group of members
after the speech of Walter Runciman,
President of the Board of Trade, on
the food situation. The members of
the group, their notice stated, will
move that this prohibition should be
imposed in view of Mr, Runciman's
grave statement respecting the short..
age of corn, sugar and other food-
stuffs.
DESERTERS GIVEN
ANOTHER CHANCE
A despatch from Ottawa says: An
order -in -Council passed under the War
Measures Act, allows a military de-
serter_to return to the service on pro-
mising to stay. The regulation pro-
vides that a deserter, who is sentenc-
ed
entence
ed to imprisonment may be turned
over by the court to the military au-
thorities if the offender agrees to re-
turn and not to desert again,
AUSTRALIAN GENERAL
DIES ON FRENCH FRONT
London, Nov. 20.- Brigadier -Gen-
eral Duncan 3. Glasfurd died in
France on November 12, as a result
of a wound from a shell. Re was one
of the leading Australian commanders
and was director of Military training
in Australia for four years preceding
the war.
lots $13. Cheer Imo} r
captured, together with two ma- , least 150,000 casualties, counting I l2luiter choicefinest ea net ter n'43 23 0•
chine guns and 600 pounds of bombs. I those of both sides. So fax in thisto
engagement at least 1,500,000 men; 4380; seconds, to ,o 4-4c. Lggs-1c resh.
+` 53 to 55c; selected, 40e; No. 1 stock. 360;
$25,000,000 RAISED I have been hit. Next Summer the l No. 2$s tcoi`, 32c. Potatoes -Per bar;, car
;Winnipeg' Grein. +s'
Winnipeg, Nov, 21. -Cash prices, No. 1
Northern, 31.993; No. 2,.do 31.94$; No.
The Times announces that its collec- "When will the war be over? I only Q.• ., setess�ro.r3,do, 651c; extra No, 1
tions on behalf of the Red Cross on know that next year will be bloodier feed, sGBc; o. .eed, 043;; No. 2, do„
passed £5,000,000. 038e. Enr8c';fe 6 3, $1.OS; N0, t:
9,uc;
Wednesdaythan this. The week before I left ! r6Cjeoted, ssc; feet! suc. rl rx- -No. 1
ea France I talked with General Joftre N.-W,C., 32.50; N__ 2 .'W., (:$2,55.
•
FOR RED CROSS USE.1 British are prepared to lose 1,000,000
men if necessary, and they will have
and
their present gun -power.
A despatch from London says
LORD SHAUGHNESSY ndSsl Douglas Haig, and with sucharmy and corps vnitea states D3arYatt+.
TAKES SEAT IN LORDS R.awlinson on the aSomme, aders as nd r HGen- enry 1ltrnneapolis. Nov. 2i. o $1 921 f. $ 7De-
4;
ca h,erio.$I I�ard1$1 90}tto $2 �Joi;$o7 r
orals Nivelle and Mangin, who plan- Northern, $1,954 to $1.981; No, 2 Nar-
A despatch from London says :- ped and executed the brilliant at= there $1.904 to 3"1.943. Corn --No. 3 yea
Lord Shaughnessy will take his seat tacks which recovered Forts Douau-, low, 93rtto 96c. Oats -No. 3 white, rs to
in the House of Lords on Thursday, on and Vaux at Verdun. Their idea $27,
Lord Northcliffe and Lord Macdonnell was the same that I have found every -
will be the sponsors. where -a fight to a finish."
Duluth, Nor. 21.--:Wheat-No. 1 hard,
31.34 Northern,
04. $Linseed-_1~allorth-
ern. ,
track, 322.82; November, 32.30; December.
- - $2.79; May, $2.853.
AUSTRIAN FORCES S IPED OUT 7]iNov.21---'U t h
Toronto, D. "1 -oath ror steers,
heavy, 38 to $8.76 butchers' rattle,
IN FICIIT O C APOT s � 4�if: 1T 37.50; rhotoe, , 35. to $7.90 do.. good,37,25 to
+1� t1S#IIN Jl common, 35.50atox$s 30.75;butchers'ubulls.
} choice, 37.10 to 3.7.35; do.,
$0.40 to 36.50; do„ rough bulls, $4.501 lto
do., good,$5; 35.7ers' rows,
t s36` do.,emeriium, $5.50
feto eders30.60;,$8.35 sttoker37s, LG $5 tocanners 36.20;and ehotcecutoc-
Hand-to-]Eland Fighting. terra, $3.$$55 to 36; milkers, choice, each
each0 t340lto $60; springers.a,350 to 31110;
light ewes, $8.25 to 39; sheep heavy. $0
to 37.50; calves, good to choice, 010 to
Rome, Nov. 19. -Italian troops have I attempt to recapture the village of , medium1a D c5 O
80 1$9.50111tnge1lfei'iziliol,ci
made advances at some points in 1 Sano in the Adige was easily beaten I v'a te,11, . 37o.s5 to 410.70; d0., rvcir l,ed
Carso and east of Vertoibizza. Aus- off. In the u ore car• $10.90 to $11; do„ fo., . $rn,1o.
Aper But an effort was Montreal, Nov, 2a. --.Steers choice,
trian attacks were driven back, says I made against the Italian position on ce, $6.t5 to $7.75; ۥond. $5 to $0.75;
the statement from the War Orrice to- I tiro Chapot summit, and it was only, cow, rii-,- -3 06 to $6.75; 9'buij $G 5o to $s;
day. A heavy snowfall and cold wee- I , ranrrars, $3.5o to $3.75: bunt, l,utcher s,
after, stubborn hand -to -,rand fighting I $" to $0; Dann rs, $4.25 to 34.76; sheen,
ther are hampering operations in the' that the Austrians were repulsed. ca �est34$t Gvr,,, hog ' 10 °sig $11,60,
mountain districts. This did not pre- Small detachments of the enemy sue- -..•- _�
vent the Austrians launching several ceeded in breaking into the •Italian BI#.ITISH AtR RAIDS
determined onslaughts, however. An trenches were wiped out. ON TURKS AT EXIT
Were Decisively Repulsed Along the Whole Front After Stubborn
ALTFS DEMAND SURRENDER
K British army in Mesopotamia says GREEK
oF
i � Ry AND A two successful, air raids have been
made by British rtviators on Turkish
positions on the Euphrates River and
at Rut -;till -Amara,
AIRMEN AGAIN RA ID
RUMANIAN CAPITAL
London, Nov. 19. -An official re-
port from the headquarters of the
Vice -Admiral Fournet Presents Significant Note to Government
at Athens.
Athens, Nov. 10.- Vice -Admiral
Fournet, commander of. the Anglo-
I"rengh fleet in the Mediterranean, Fri-
day night presented to the Green Gov-
ernment a note demanding the sur -
I render to the Entente allies of all
,I arms, munitions and artillery of the
Greek array, with the exception of
I some 50,000 riflte now in actual use by
, the forces .re»aining after the last
step of demobilization,
A despatch. from London says:...
Another aerial attack on Bucharest
was made on Tuesday meriting by.
.eight German aeroplanes,'Reuter's
Bucharest :orrespondorlt reports,
Twenty-five bombs were dropped, kill-
ing
illing four civilians and Wounding
twenty